Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1911 — FIREPLACES ARE POPULAR [ARTICLE]

FIREPLACES ARE POPULAR

Suitable Furnishings Are Hard to Find Owing to the Increased Demand. Open fireplaces have become so popular and are being used so generally In all the rooms of the.home nowadays that the demand for andirons has increased accordingly. Suitable andirons are not always easy to find, and freqrlhntly we see a beautiful fireplace spoiled because It has been supplied with andirons out of proportion and of an altogether inappropriate style. Sometimes, too, a luxurious big living room fireplace is given a pair of dear little old-time Irons which would" do exactly for a cozy little bedroom, while small fireplaces are furnished with huge, heavy, modern brass andirons. Authorities on the subject tell us that brass is suitable for the formal rooms, while the simpler apartments should have Iron, Upped with brass knobs. In a spacious hall, where the fireplace Is correspondingly large, the hearth looks well if a® heavy wrought iron grille, with tall andirons to match. Is used.

For rooms done In a quaint oldtime style of furnishing some of the reproductions of the Hessian designs of andirons, painted in colors, are rather good. One also sees occasionally andirons of brass and copper, in Italian designs—sea horses or caricatures of men add beasts. In roaming through the shops one is fascinated with the assortment of fireplace furnishings. A complete set Included a fine old brass fender with clsw feet, a pair of steeple topped andirons, shovel, tongs and the heavy rings to hold them to the jam of the fireplace. These would fit well into a modern colonial house.